The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-11-11
A PAUPER'S DYING REQUEST.

An amusing and yet pathetic in-
cident in what the poet Gray called
:" the short and simple annals of
the poor" is told by Mr.. John ]. r.
Micklejohn, one of the Inspectors
of the Poor, at Sherwick, Shetland
Islands. He says that some time
ago an old woman, named Barbara
Smith, came under the notice of the
Board. She was extremely i'll, and
it did not look likely that she would
loug need care of any kind. She
did not reside on the main land, but
on small island few miles distant
and there being no parochial institu-
tions in that place, Barbara neces-
sarily occupied the position OF a
pauper living out. The trouble
from which she suffered dated back
many years. In better and more
prosperous days she had in some
way laid the foundation for Chronic
Indigestion and Dyspepsia, b.
of this had sprung other co
as age and bodily infrmitie
apace upon her.
Barbara was. not ignorant, albeit
she had fallen into poverty. In ear
lier life she somehow obtained the
advantage of a fair education, and
this, added to native shrewdness.
enabled her to use good judgment in
respect to her own situation and
state of health. Although she had
long suffered from asthma and a
bronchial affection, Barbara was
wise enough to see that these all
ments arose from the disordered
stomach and digestion, and that II
the main trouble could be cured the
others would soon leave her. 1t is
probable that her disease began as
Others do, with the usual symptoms
headaches, bad breath, the rising OF
sour fluids in the throat, oppression
and falntness at the pit of the stom-
ach, loss of sleep, coated tongue,
dull eyes, bad taste in the mouth,
&C., and finally became chronic and
hopeless through her not being able
to find any remedy. The Inspector
states that she had been under med
ical treatment for years, but to nc
effect. In this strait she one day
made the following touching appeal
to the Inspector: 81 have been
swallowing medicines for months
They do me no good. l am going
2 on from worse to worse. l can en-
dure it no longer. I feel that in
, week or two shall be dead. There
is one last request would make o.
you: give me a bottle of Mother
Seigels Curative Syrup; it is my
! only hope. If it proves a failure
and does me no good l will die il
peace, and make no more expense
to the parish"
1t seems she had got hold of ont
of Mother Seigel's Almanacks ant
read of the great cures wrought BY
the Syrup in cases like hers.
The Board pitied the poor lon'
woman and granted her petition, be
lieving, however, the syrup woul'
prove as useless as the other medi
cines she had already taken. Wha
was their establishment to find, in tn
course of few days, that she ha'
not only been able to get out OF bed
but to move about outside the house
and had taken journeys to consid
cradle distance, and was actually en-
joying better health than since sh
was first taken ill. The asthma an
bronchitis, which were no more tina
symptoms of her true disease (lnd
ges,ion and dyspepsia), rapid
abated, and it now seems that BAL
bara will soon be as hale and heart
!. as the Inspector himself, and be on
of the hosts of living witnesses
the power of Mother seigel's syru
to save the thousands who were ju'
}. ready to perish.
Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup
for sale by all chemists and med
cine vendors, and by the propri
tors, A. J. White, Limited, 30 Fla
: ringdon Road, London, L. G.
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